Tuesday, 24 July 2012

A dozen or so young women wearing pony tails and predominantly black lycra...

A dozen or so young women wearing pony tails and predominantly black lycra with a single bright accent of either cerise pink, cobalt blue, orange, lime green etc were taking part in an outdoor aerobics session in the park. At the bus stop opposite, an elderly woman in a beige anorak arrived and said to the other elderly woman in a beige anorak, “It’s been a bit of a rush but I’m here now and that’s all that matters”.In the farm shop car park, a woman in a beige anorak was telling a man in a beige anorak that she couldn’t get anything except Radio 2 on her car stereo.

“Still?” said the old man, rolling his eyes.

The woman nodded, “I know! After all this time”.

The man waved a walking stick towards the shop entrance and said, “It’s a bit of a walk down there”.

“I’ll go”, said the woman, “What do you want?”

“A lettuce”, said the man.

A heron flew over Shangri-La, a blackbird picked up a sun-baked slug and bounced it on the driveway at Orchard House and, at Greenside, where the man with the pickaxe said he’d be OK as long as it stayed dry, a Robin was eating some shat-out berries on top of a gate post.